Is your school loaded with stars? Ranking college teams with most MLB draft prospects

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  • Kiley McDanielMay 30, 2025, 07:00 AM ET

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As the NCAA regionals begin successful assemblage baseball, grant voting and regular-season stats springiness you a bully thought who performed good this season, portion my draught rankings and mock drafts fto you cognize who volition spell aboriginal successful this summer's draft. But which colleges tin assertion bragging rights for having the astir pro endowment connected their rosters crossed each draught classes?

I person a spot of an obsession -- but besides elaborate spreadsheets sourced from precocious information and scouts, truthful I tin reply this question by examining however galore players (regardless of class) task arsenic aboriginal draught prospects.

Because the draught and projections for pro occurrence look heavy astatine tools and age, those things are emphasized done the process erstwhile you get past the aboveground statistic successful my formula.

I'll punctual you that these margins are truly choky -- if you adhd 1 second-rounder to immoderate of the teams below, it volition astir apt determination up a fewer spots -- and I utilized each pro-caliber players to formulate the ranking, adjacent though we database conscionable the top-two-rounds prospects connected each team's existent roster below. Players who are presently injured number for this exercise, but I dinged the squad standing a spot if you won't spot the subordinate this postseason, and each players listed are 2025 draft-eligible unless different indicated.

Without further delay, present are the astir loaded rosters successful assemblage baseball:


1. Tennessee

Top-two-rounds prospects: LHP Liam Doyle, SS Gavin Kilen, 3B Andrew Fischer, RHP Marcus Phillips, C Levi Clark (2027), 3B Dean Curley, RHP A.J. Russell

Before I started this process, I figured the Volunteers would win, and they did, carried by a truly beardown 2025 draught people highlighted by Liam Doyle -- who is projected to spell No. 2 successful my astir caller mock.

And Tennessee has adjacent much endowment than the names listed above. RHP Tanner Franklin and Nate Snead are 2 cardinal bullpen arms who scope the triple digits and didn't qualify, portion a fig of different players could measurement up into top-two-round relevance with expanded roles adjacent season, specified arsenic RHP Tegan Kuhns and 2B/CF Jay Abernathy.


2. Arkansas

Top-two-rounds prospects: SS Wehiwa Aloy, RHP Gage Wood, C Ryder Helfrick (2026), LHP Zach Root, OF Charles Davalan, LHP Cole Gibler (2027), RHP Gabe Gaeckle

The Razorbacks weren't the archetypal squad I thought of erstwhile guessing who would beryllium adjacent the apical of this ranking due to the fact that they don't person arsenic galore top-of-the-first-round prospects arsenic immoderate others, though they annually person tons of pro talent, truthful this isn't a shocker.

Aloy is astir apt the 1 imaginable projected for the apical fractional of the archetypal circular of the group, but the remainder of the database belongs successful the late-first to early-second range, with a fig of intriguing talents beyond that, including 3B Brent Iredale and astir a half-dozen antithetic pitchers.


3. LSU

Top-two-rounds prospects: LHP Kade Anderson, OF Derek Curiel (2026) RHP Casan Evans (2027), RHP Anthony Eyanson, SS Steven Milam (2026), RHP William Schmidt (2027), 2B Daniel Dickinson

The Tigers are often loaded with pro endowment nether skipper Jay Johnson, and this twelvemonth is nary different. Scouts soured a spot connected Curiel arsenic a precocious schoolhouse senior, but helium has proved them incorrect arsenic a freshman, looking similar a first-rounder truthful far. Evans and Eyanson were revelations arsenic newcomers, and Schmidt has the imaginable to acceptable that statement successful an expanded relation adjacent season.


4. Texas

Top-two-rounds prospects: 3B Adrian Rodriguez (2027), LHP Dylan Volantis (2027), RHP Jason Flores (2027), RF Max Belyeu, 2B Ethan Mendoza (2026)

Texas is stocked with underclassmen with early-round upside arsenic Mendoza and Rodriguez volition anchor the infield adjacent play and I'd conjecture Volantis and Flores volition some determination into the rotation aft beardown alleviation performances arsenic freshmen. LHP Jared Spencer would've easy qualified earlier his wounded earlier this month.


5. Florida

Top-two-rounds prospects: RHP Liam Peterson (2026), RHP Aidan King (2027), SS Brendan Lawson (2027), RHP Luke McNeillie (2026)

The Gators are the archetypal squad with nary 2025 draft-eligible players listed, though 2B Cade Kurland would astir apt suffice if helium were steadfast each season, and SS Colby Shelton would besides apt sneak successful if helium were 21 years aged alternatively than 22. Peterson is the apical assemblage limb for 2026 and King looks similar 1 of galore aboriginal 2027 first-rounders who popped arsenic freshmen this season; astir of them are listed here.


6. Florida State

Top-two-rounds prospects: LHP Jamie Arnold, LHP Wes Mendes (2026), SS Alex Lodise, 2B Drew Faurot

The Noles person coagulated high-end talent, with 3 imaginable first-round talents headlined by apt top-10 prime Arnold. The extent doesn't halt determination arsenic OF Max Williams and RHP Cam Leiter (injured) mightiness beryllium third-rounders this year, and underclassmen C Hunter Carns and LF Myles Bailey are besides showing flashes.


7. Wake Forest

Top-two-rounds prospects: RHP Chris Levonas (2027), SS Marek Houston, RF Ethan Conrad

Wake has graduated a fig of standout players to pro shot successful the past fewer years and has different coagulated harvest coming this year, with Houston and Conrad some apt first-round picks. Levonas didn't motion arsenic a second-round prime retired of precocious schoolhouse past year, and aboriginal returns suggest helium mightiness beryllium a precocious first-rounder successful a fewer years.


8. Oregon State

Top-two-rounds prospects: SS Aiva Arquette, RHP Dax Whitney (2027)

The Beavers person lone 2 players listed here, but some look similar top-10 picks. There are besides a fig of absorbing prospects successful the third-to-fourth-round scope for this year's draft, including OF Gavin Turley, LHP Nelson Keljo and 3B Trent Caraway.


9. Oklahoma

Top-two-rounds prospects: RHP Kyson Witherspoon, SS Jaxon Willits (2026), C Easton Carmichael, RHP Malachi Witherspoon, LHP Cade Crossland

Oklahoma has 5 prospects listed here, though lone Kyson Witherspoon is simply a wide top-50 pick; the different 5 are each aboriginal second-round oregon aboriginal third-round types of prospects. This rotation makes the Sooners unsafe successful a postseason format.


10. TCU

Top-two-rounds prospects: RHP Tommy Lapour (2026), OF Sawyer Strosnider (2026), LHP Mason Brassfield (2027)

TCU's harvest of prospects who made the database (and OF Noah Franco, who was successful contention) are each underclassmen, which bodes good for the future. Lapour has 3 above-average pitches and is the second-best assemblage pitcher for adjacent year's draft.


11. Mississippi State

Top-two-rounds prospects: OF Nolan Stevens (2026), 3B Ace Reese (2026), RHP Ryan McPherson (2027)

Stevens and Reese some look similar imaginable first-round picks for adjacent year's draft; Reese is an fantabulous hitter with mean power, portion Stevens has immoderate plaything and miss to his crippled but casual positive earthy power. McPherson is the champion imaginable among a fig of absorbing underclassman arms, though 22-year-old LHP Pico Kohn is the astir impactful for this season.


12. Georgia Tech

Top-two-rounds prospects: OF Drew Burress (2026), C Vahn Lackey (2026), SS Kyle Lodise, 2B Alex Hernandez (2026)

Burress is successful the moving to spell No. 1 successful adjacent year's draught owed to his standout power/speed combination. Lackey and Lodise look similar coagulated second-rounders. Hernandez is simply a borderline second-rounder acknowledgment to a beardown freshman year.

The adjacent half-dozen teams: Alabama, Auburn, Vanderbilt, Oregon, Ole Miss, North Carolina

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